When I Look At the European Labor Strikes Happening Right Now

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It's hard not to think our government is going to do their best to our unions export their methods and personnel over there, in order to pacify them.

THE business secretary, Lord Mandelson, issued a stark warning against moves to protect British jobs from foreign workers yesterday as unions planned a national protest march.

With the spectre of disruption to fuel and power supplies, Mandelson insisted that companies must continue to be allowed to employ staff from overseas. In a blunt message to workers demanding “British jobs for British workers”, he said: “Protectionism would be a sure-fire way of turning recession into depression.”

His tough stance was echoed by Gordon Brown, who condemned plans for further wild-cat strikes tomorrow. “That’s not the right thing to do and it’s not defensible,” he said.

While ministers held emergency meetings with union leaders to try to stem the flow of unofficial protests, militant shop stewards were planning their next moves.

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France’s largest general strike in three years hit transportation, school, hospital and post services yesterday as unions demanded more government action to fight the economic crisis.

Over 1million protesters took part, with tens of thousands of youths, pensioners and unemployed people marching across towns and cities.

The powerful CGT, one of eight unions that called the one-day “black Thursday” strike, claimed 2.5million people took part.

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